Cuff-button.



PATENTED JUNE 9, 190s.

H. A. LIBAIRE;

, CUF? BUTTON.

APPLIGATION FILED NOV. 19., 1901.

1ro MODEL.

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PATENT FEICE.

HENRYA. LIBAIRE, oF NEW YORK, N.Y Y.

CUFF-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of-Letters Patent No. 730,277, dated .inn e, 1903i.

Application filed November 19, 1901. Serial No. 82.835. (No model.)

To cir/ZZ whom, t may concern,.-

Bei't known that I, HENRY A. LIBAIRE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, county of New York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cuff Buttons, of

which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. l

This invention relates to that class of cuffbuttons each comprising two heads and a connecting member, and hasfor its primary objects the production of a button capable of A Shanks, respectively, whereby the eye-shankv of one head is of such configuration that while one part thereof coacts with the special angle presented by the rear face of its head to conform to and retain its cuff end or side edge in the acutely-converged position previously mentioned the eye part of said shank extends at such relative angle with respect to the other portion of its shank that the hookshank of the other head can readily engage said eye when the former is approximately at a right angle with respect to the latter, the peculiar shapes and disposition of both said eye and hook shanks being such that when -in engagement with each other and connected to the cu they are not liable to disengagement under the movements ordinarily imposed upon both parts of the button during wear. By this arrangement danger of loss of the button parts by accidental disengagement of the eye and hook is materially reduced, while convenience .of desired engagement and disengagementis greatly promoted.

There are other novel features and details View, partly in section, of acu with my improved button and illustrating the manner of applying the latter to the former. a somewhat similar view illustrating the natural positions of the cuff and improved button. Fig. Sis a view of the button alone and showing the same on a slightly larger scale. Fig 4 also shows the button, but viewed in a position at a right angle to that represented in Fig. 3.

The button-heads A B are provided with the rigid eye and hook shanks C D, respectively, the eye-shank being the slightly longer of the two. The` shank C consists of aiiattened eye portion c of considerable Width and a narrower but thicker portion c, rigidly secured to the back of the head A. It will be noted that the portion c does not extend strictly at a right Vangle from the back a of the head A, while the eye portion c extends at an obtuse angle with respect to the portion c.

The hook-shank D extends from the back b of the head B at the same peculiar angle as does the portion c from the back of its head. This shank D comprises Vthe thicker but nar- Fig. 2 ishead, and the thinner but Wider portion bent to form the hook proper, d'.

To adjust the button, the ends or side edges E E are pressed together, as illustrated in Fig. l, with their buttonholes registering. rlhe eye-shank C is then passed through both holes, so that its eye portion c will project considerably beyond theface of the cuff opposite to that on which the head A is located. The button B is then so manipulated that while its shank D is substantially at a right angle to the projecting` portion `c its hook can be caused to conveniently engage the eye of said portion c', after which, on the.

edges of the cufle being released, theelasticity of the latter will cause the hook-shank to be drawn through its buttonhole and the back of the head A bear appropriately against the contiguous face of the cuff. With the cuff edges and button thus conditioned theactual IOO hook-and-eye connection will be approximately midway between the cuff portions E E, as indicated in Fig. 2, the flattened character of the portion d' relative to the part d providing a shoulder cl2 adjacent to the hookterminal, whereby if under the movements ordinarilyiinposed upon both parts of the button during wear the eye is caused to swing around and slide upon the Hattened parts of the hook the end of the eye Will abut against said shoulder, the effect being to maintain the hook and eye engaged. The detachment can he effected when desired by again compressing the cuff edges E together to project the eye portion, as in Fig. l, whereupon the head B, with its shank, will be so turned that the latter can be readily disengaged from the eye in an obvious manner.

By providing both headsA B with definite shanks O D instead of an extended bar and a short loop or hook,respectively,such shan ks present relatively stronger features of the button and are capable of being engaged and disengaged with greater facility than is possible in an arrangement where one Of the heads carries simply a short loop or hook. Moreover, by equipping both heads with shanks as described the actual hook engagement is located away from the innersu rfaces of the cuff edges and is therefore not subject to such movements as it would acquire if closely adjacent to the inner surface of either of said edges and which would tend to result inthe accidental disengagement of the parts.

I do not wish to be understood as conning myself to the specific cuff-buttons shown and veder? described, as changes may be made in the de; tails thereof and the construction still be within the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a cuff-button, the combination with the heads, of rigid Shanks extending obliquely relative to the contiguous faces of their heads, one of said Shanks havinga flattened portion bent parallel with respect to itself to constitute a hook, and the shank of the other button having an eye portion extending at an obtuse angle relative thereto.

2. In a cliblitton, the combination with the heads, of rigid shanks extending obliquely relative to the contiguous faces of their heads, one of said Shanks being attened to present a shoulder d2, and bent parallel with respect to itself to form ahook the approach of which is guarded by said shoulder, and the shank of the other button having an eye portion extending at an obtuse angle relative thereto, the wall of the eye nearestits shank, adapted to coact with the shoulder d2, of the other shank substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 13th day ot' November, 1901.

HENRY A. LIBAIRE.

Witnesses:

BELLE PATTERSON, WALTER JonEREN'rs, 

